The New Yorker managed to dodge a work stoppage on Wednesday when staff and management at the weekly magazine agreed to a first union contract after two and a half years of negotiations. The publication’s […]
We [at the News Guild CWA] call on Meredith Levien (CEO), A.G. Sulzberger (Publisher), and managers of The New York Times to stop breaking federal labor law, stop union-busting, and recognize the Times Tech […]
The signs read “You can’t eat prestige” in the instantly recognizable font of The New Yorker. Of course a protest over workplace conditions at one of the most exalted magazines in the world would have good […]
“After four years of relentless lying and distortion from the Trump administration, designed to incite his supporters to violence, we assessed that it was possible that a mass action in the streets could become necessary,” says a letter published in Labor Notes. […]
General Internet searching is not enough. Companies manipulate what shows up first on a general Internet search. Often you have to weed through hundreds of pages of marginal information before you get to real substantive information on […]
“This wasn’t your average picket line,” writes Paul Prescod in Jacobin. “’It’s up to Walt to call the halt,’ read a striking worker’s picket sign beside a picture of Mickey Mouse. Another featured an image of Pinocchio saying, ‘There are no strings on me.’ […]
“A consistent theme of the postmortems on the failed union drive at Amazon’s warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama,” write Alex Hanand Adam Ryan in The Nation, “is that the organizers just weren’t ready to take on the tech behemoth. […]
Employees at Skylight Books – a Vermont Avenue institution that has been offering a curated book selection since 1996 – have voted to unionize. Publishers Weekly reported that the Skylight Booksellers Union will be affiliated with the CWA […]
The American Federation of Musicians has filed an unfair labor practices charge against HBO, claiming that musicians on The Gilded Age, its 10-part miniseries filming in New York, were fired after they asked to be represented by the union. […]
Efforts to inform voters about the ‘For the People Act’ and get them to contact their Senators have been paying off. The bill cleared the Senate Rules Committee last week. The ‘For the People Act’ would loosen the hold corporate money […]
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